Welcome

I am Ole Rehmsen and this site is concerned with my studies, currently at the University of Calgary in Canada. I have not yet identified any particular audience, for me it basically serves as a place to put stuff. If you want to contact me, send an e-mail to firstname@lastname.de

Bachelor thesis

Gesture Recognition using Accumulated Optical Flow

My Bachelor’s thesis for anyone interested to read it. The source for the prototype application can be found in my project management system. It has been tested on OSX and Ubuntu Linux.

Code

Gesture Recognition Prototype

I have finally uploaded the source code of the prototype application I used to demonstrate the gesture recognition method described in my Bachelor’s thesis. It can be found in my project management system. The code has been tested on OSX 10.5 and Ubuntu 9.04. I am planning to refactor and improve this code as soon as time permits and make a more user friendly interface for it.

eRacerX

As part of my studies, I am currently working in a team of five students on a space racing game called eRacerX. The game is currently is currently in beta stage and has to be submitted by April 26. Anyone who wants to check it out already can get source and binary packages from my project management system.

Flocks of Boids

For the computer animation class at the University of Calgary I have implemented Craig Reynolds’ behavioral animation model for simulating flocks of birds, schools of fish and herds. The source code can be downloaded from my project management system.

Talks

These are some of my recent talks. For all talks, click more.

Façade - An Interactive Drama

Held in the proseminar "Human Computer Interaction" on June 25, 2009

A 30 minute talk I held in the proseminar “Human Computer Interaction” on Façade, a framework for writing interactive dramas. The design of the slides is largely influenced by Garr Reynolds’ book “Presentation Zen”. I tried to incorporate his suggestions and the feedback was really good. At the same time this means the talk cannot be reconstructed from the slides (as most of what I said is not on them). I will upload them anyhow and think about annotating slides in future.

Gesture Recognition using Accumulated Optic Flow Fields

Held at the Mathmatical Image Analysis Chair on May 29, 2009

This is a talk in which I present aims and ideas for my Bachelor thesis to the members of the Mathmatical Image Analysis Chair. It gives a rough outlook on my plans without supplying too much detail on the techniques that I will use. In combination with the literature cited, one should be able to understand the method proposed.

The Aesthetic-Usability Effect

Held in the proseminar "Human Computer Interaction" on Mai 14, 2009

A short talk (5 min.) on the so called Aesthetic-Usability effect: More aesthetic user interfaces, devices et cetera appear to be more usable than their less-aesthetic equivalents.

Reports

Façade - An Interactive Drama

This is a report belonging to my presentation on Façade. It is mostly based on two papers by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, “Façade: An Experiment in Building a Fully-Realized Interactive Drama” (2003) and “A Behavior Language: Joint Action and Behavioral Idioms” (2004).